Application Of Case-method Teaching In The Middle Vocational Schools Of Basic Nursing

ObjectiveTo design a kind of case-method teaching for nursing education pedagogy of middle vocational education, in order to explore appropriate post basic nursing course in the new model and new method. Implementation of "knowledge-centered" to "capacity-centered" paradigm shift of education and training needs of the 21st century knowledge-based, application-oriented talents, to raise the level of nursing students in the analysis of problem-solving skills, collaboration, communication skills, information literacy, language expression, lifelong learning, etc. integrated capabilities, the next step into the clinical work to lay a solid foundation.MethodSelect level nursing students in four classes totally 196, including female:186 male:10, with an average age of 15.37±0.744. 4 classes adopt a simple way to randomly divided into experimental group (in case-based pedagogy) and control group (based on traditional teaching methods). In the interim midsemester and final exam to adopt the combination of skill test and theoretical method test, teaching pre-and post questionnaires were evaluated for the learning process in this course, the daily performance of students. All data was coordinated and analyzed with SPSS 16.0software and analyzed by descriptive statistics, chi-square test,U test, t test ect.Results1. Through a semester teaching in different teaching methods, the experimental group students are more interested in the nursing profession than the control group students (P <0.05). 2. Experimental group students are better than control group students in the analysis of problem-solving skills, collaboration, communication skills, language ability,the difference was statistically significant (P <0.05).3. Final theory test, the experimental group of nursing students performance are higher than control group students the difference was statistically significant (P <0.05).4. Final skills test, the experimental group of nursing students take the "Oral Care" and "unarmed CPR" skills are higher than the control group students, the difference was statistically significant (P <0.01).Conclusion1. Case-method teaching to stimulate the students interest in learning, active learning environment for "nursing-based" teaching content.2. Case-method teaching to improve the analysis of the students problem-solving skills, collaboration, and information literacy, to cultivate useful for life-long learning.3. The study may provide experience and model for preparing studying competencies for the middle vocational nursing education in the future.